Under-18 youth captain Marco Henry was the latest player to come through the development system as he made his full Leicester Road FC debut in a convincing win.

From the first whistle to the last it was a solid team performance, with James Hicks and Nathan McGarrity both grabbing hat-tricks.

Little time was wasted before LRFC got onto the front foot and after forcing the Coton keeper into making two fine saves, the first goal eventually did arrive after 10 minutes with a fine strike from Hicks following good work down the right by Sam Munton.

The relentless high tempo was being set by the home team resulting in two quick-fire goals.

McGarrity’s first came courtesy of Munton, who picked him out as he entered the penalty area. With a first time side foot shot, McGarrity placed the ball into the bottom corner.

Hicks’ second came minutes later via good work from Amarvir Sandhu on the opposite wing, who beat his man and fired the ball across to be sidefooted home by Hicks.

With Coton trying desperately to get a foothold, they found themselves undone for a fourth time with Munton again the supplier with another assist, picking out McGarrity to slide in his second.

Coton did have the ball in the net on 35 minutes only to see the offside flag.

Leicester Road finished the half stronger when Hicks was denied a first half hat-trick by the feet of the Coton keeper.

The second half continued as the first and within two minutes of the restart it was 5–0 with Hicks completing his hat-trick, again with some fantastic work from the flank by Sandhu who stroked the ball across the six-yard box for Hicks to score.

Hicks was substituted on 65 minutes, being replaced by Mussa Yussuf making his return from injury. But it was Hicks’ strike partner who was to continue with the goalscoring by getting the sixth goal of the game and completing his treble in the 71st minute.

It was that man again Munton who split the Coton defence with an inch-perfect crossfield through ball which McGarrity ran onto and, cutting the ball onto his left foot, passed it past the advancing keeper from just outside the area.

The scoring was completed when McGarrity turned from goalscorer into supplier. Noticing Joseph Lyne’s diagonal forward run, he slid a through ball between the defenders. Lyne’s first touch took him away from the recovering defender and as the keeper came out to close down the angle, Lyne slid the ball past him with a left foot finish.

Although Coton showed good spirit by continuing to compete to the final whistle, Leicester Road were determined to keep a clean sheet and when Coton FC won a direct free-kick right at the end of the game, Will Highland was not going to be beaten, as he turned the fierce strike away for a corner with a fantastic one handed save.